That same year Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ, the governor of Medina, led the pilgrimage, as related by Abū Maʿshar and al-Wāqidī.
During this year Jabalah ibn al-Ayham al-Ghassānī also passed away; his biography will be given at the end of these notices.
Among those who died this year were:
• al-Rabīʿ ibn Ziyād al-Ḥārithī ⟨1⟩, regarding whose status as a Companion there is disagreement. He had been Ziyād’s deputy over Khurasan. When the execution of Ḥujr ibn ʿAdī was mentioned before him he lamented, saying, “By Allah, had the Arabs risen up for him, he would not have been put to death in captivity; but the Arabs submitted and were thus abased.” Then, on a Friday, he supplicated from the pulpit that Allah take him unto Himself, and he did not live to see the following Friday. He appointed his son ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Rabīʿ to succeed him, and Ziyād confirmed the appointment. Two months later the son died, after which Khulayḍ ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥanafī was put in charge, and Ziyād ratified him as well.
• Ruwayfiʿ ibn Thābit ⟨2⟩, a distinguished Companion. He witnessed the conquest of Egypt and rendered notable service in the conquest of the Maghrib. He died in Barqah while serving as its governor on behalf of Maslamah ibn Mukhlad, the governor of Egypt.
In this same year Ziyād ibn Abī Sufyān ⟨3⟩—also known as Ziyād ibn Abīhi and Ziyād ibn Sumayyah (Sumayyah being his mother)—died in Ramadan of that year.
(1) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqāt, vol. 6, p. 159; al-Bukhārī, Tārīkh al-Kabīr, vol. 3, p. 979; Ibn Ḥibbān, Thiqāt, vol. 1, p. 130; al-Dhahabī, Mashāhīr ʿUlamāʾ al-Amsār (d. 984 AH); al-Istīʿāb, vol. 2, p. 492; Ibn Ḥajar, Asad al-Ghabah, vol. 2, p. 206; Tahdhib al-Kamāl, vol. 9, p. 80; Tadhhīb al-Tadhhīb, vol. 1, p. 219; al-Kāshif, vol. 1, p. 235; Tajrīd Asmāʾ al-Ṣaḥābah, vol. 1, p. 177; Ikmāl Mughultay, vol. 2, p. 15; al-ʿAqd al-Thamīn, vol. 4, p. 389; Nihāyat al-Sūl, p. 95; Tadhhīb al-Tadhhīb, vol. 3, p. 244; al-Iṣābah, vol. 1, p. 505; Khulāṣat al-Khazarjī, p. 115.
(2) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqāt, vol. 4, p. 354; al-Khalīfah, Tabaqāt al-Khalīfah (d. 724 AH); al-Khalīfah, Tārīkh al-Khalīfah, p. 208; Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Musnad Aḥmad, vol. 4, p. 107; al-Bukhārī, Tārīkh al-Kabīr, vol. 3, p. 338; al-Dhahabī, al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl, vol. 3, p. 520; Ibn Ḥibbān, Thiqāt, vol. 1, p. 133; al-Dhahabī, Mashāhīr ʿUlamāʾ al-Amsār (d. 389 AH); al-Ṭabarānī, Muʿjam al-Ṭabarānī al-Kabīr, vol. 5 (d. 434 AH); al-Istīʿāb, vol. 2, p. 504; Ibn Ḥajar, Asad al-Ghabah, vol. 2, p. 239; Tahdhib al-Asmāʾ wa-l-Lughāt, vol. 1, p. 192; Tahdhib al-Kamāl, vol. 9, p. 254; Tārīkh al-Islām, vol. 2, pp. 223, 279; al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, vol. 3, p. 36; al-Kāshif, vol. 1, p. 244; Tadhhīb al-Tadhhīb, vol. 1, p. 229; Tajrīd Asmāʾ al-Ṣaḥābah, vol. 1, p. 187; Ikmāl Mughultay, vol. 2, p. 29; Nihāyat al-Sūl, p. 99; al-Iṣābah (d. 699 AH); Tadhhīb al-Tadhhīb, vol. 3, p. 299; Ḥasan al-Muḥāḍarah, vol. 1, p. 199; Khulāṣat al-Khazarjī, p. 120.
(3) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqāt, vol. 7, p. 99; al-Khalīfah, Tabaqāt al-Khalīfah (d. 1516 AH); al-Muḥabbir, pp. 184, 303, 479; al-Bukhārī, Tārīkh al-Kabīr, vol. 3, p. 357; al-Tārīkh al-Ṣaghīr, vol. 1, p. 115; al-Maʿārif, p. 346; al-Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī, vol. 5, p. 176; al-Dhahabī, al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl, vol. 3, p. 539; al-ʿUqd al-Farīd, vol. 4, p. 110; al-Istīʿāb, vol. 2, p. 523; Ibn ʿAsākir, Tārīkh Ibn ʿAsākir, vol. 6, p. 242a; Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-Aʿyān, vol. 6, p. 356; Ibn Ḥajar, Asad al-Ghabah, vol. 2, p. 271; Ibn al-Athīr, al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh, vol. 3, p. 493; Tahdhib al-Asmāʾ wa-l-Lughāt, vol. 1, p. 98, n. 11; Mukhtaṣar Tārīkh Dimashq, vol. 9, p. 72; Tārīkh al-Islām, vol. 2, p. 279; al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, vol. 3, p. 494; al-ʿIbar, vol. 1, p. 58; Fawāt al-Wafayāt, vol. 2, p. 31; al-Wāfī bil-Wafayāt, vol. 15, p. 10; Mirʾāt al-Jinān, vol. 1, p. 126; al-Iṣābah, vol. 1, p. 580; Shudhurāt adh-Dhahab, vol. 1, p. 252; Khizānat al-Adab, vol. 2, p. 517; Tahdhib Ibn ʿAsākir, vol. 5, p. 409.